I am traveling to Chicago next week to attend the AAHPM Fall Board Meeting and I wanted to take this opportunity to hear from the Pallimed community if there are any issues you would like voiced at the meeting. Just trying to do my part in transparency and access so the community represented by the Board of Directors is heard.
I always knew I could email anyone on the board but it felt intimidating if I did not know them well. So here is your open invitation, we may not know each other well, but if you read Pallimed you probably know me well enough. I probably would not have been elected to the board without support from Pallimed readers so if there are any issues/concerns/praise/comments you would like discussed at a higher administrative level I will be willing to listen and pass it on.
You can always email me if you would like it to be private/confidential at ctsinclair@gmail.com or you may want to consider posting it as a comment on this post so the community can also chime in and give supporting or opposing views.
AAHPM Election
Also, just a reminder to all members of the AAHPM that it is election season and you should have received your ballots if you are a full-dues paying member. They must be post-marked October 2nd. Here is the pdf of the profiles of the candidates. (Behind membership wall)
Monday, September 21, 2009
AAHPM Board Meeting & Elections
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One of the things that I like the best about the meeting at the American College of Surgeons, either the Illinois or National groups is that they encourage presentations by Residents/Fellows. In Illinois, they have one morning devoted to a Resident competition where many interesting papers are presented and a token reward given for the 1st,2nd and 3rd best papers. The National meeting has a similar venue. It might be a good idea for AAHPM to try something like this as well.
Anon: *sigh*.
I'm sighing because the academy does encourage such presentations, and even has two fellows/trainees case conferences (thanks to at least in part Christian's efforts), but I think they often go unrecognized and under appreciated. They are routinely some of the most interesting hours at the session, but I think suffer from underrecognition. I'm sighing because after all the years of these sessions your comment is indicative of the reality - not enough people know about them.
Anyway - Christian, I'd appreciate it if you would advocate for the renaming of JPSM to P.A.L.L.I.A.T.O.R. All caps, with periods, just like that.
Seriously though, regarding workforce and reimbursement issues, if the academy could generate and disseminate information about average physician RVUs for different palliative care settings (e.g. consult service at university hospital; inpatient hospital based PCU; etc.). As dangerous as this data can be, and as much as I wish it didn't matter, I think it's needed as we mature into our legitimacy - people who pay our salaries want to know how much they can/should be expecting of us w/r/t clinical productivity.
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